Typically I sit watching my recreation library and want for Titanfall 3, and I do know I am not alone. There’s been nothing within the years since Titanfall 2 that fairly captures the magic of Respawn’s elegant FPS video games, and even Apex Legends places security rails on the motion tech that made it so particular. Splitgate developer 1047 Video games is able to take up the mantle, nonetheless, confirming that it is presently growing a recreation impressed by each the Respawn classics and fellow wall-running multiplayer video games like Name of Responsibility Black Ops 3.
After revealing the main points for Splitgate: Area Reloaded Season 2, which kicks off this Friday, March 27, 1047 Video games CEO Ian Proulx teases that the workforce’s subsequent venture is within the works. “Clearly Splitgate is the main target,” he emphasizes, “however we’ve got at all times had the dream to be a multi-game studio. Clearly I like Splitgate, it is genuinely my favourite recreation of all time, and we’re not shy about the place we took inspiration from there, with Halo and Portal being two of my all-time favorites.”
Proulx smiles, “There are different video games and different dream video games that we love. I am not right here to speak an excessive amount of about that in the present day, however I need to give the group a heads up: We have had a small part of the workforce begin engaged on a brand new recreation along with Splitgate. What I’ll say is that it’s a motion shooter, and in case you’re a fan of video games like Titanfall or Black Ops 3, we’d love to listen to from you. We’ll take sign-ups so we are able to begin playtesting quickly.”
You may take heed to Proulx’s feedback in full from the 6:24 mark within the video above. Wanting Respawn giving us Titanfall 3, 1047 is likely one of the groups I would personally belief most to get the texture of a Titanfall-style motion shooter proper. The best way you may construct momentum in Splitgate is each bit as satisfying because the heady days of Titanfall 2 multiplayer. Splitgate’s portals can usually be a bit of too overwhelming for the typical participant, however maybe the transfer to wall-running motion might show the comfortable center floor we want.
There’ll naturally be questions on 1047’s capability to develop a second recreation. Between Proulx’s much-maligned “make FPS nice once more” hat, divisive modifications from the primary recreation, and a backlash over the sequel’s microtransaction pricing at launch, Splitgate 2 struggled to discover a constant viewers. The developer finally took it again to beta and relaunched it underneath the Area Reloaded branding, however not earlier than the studio confronted layoffs.
On the time, Proulx and fellow co-founder Nicholas Bagamian introduced they’d “opted to not take salaries” whereas the Splitgate redesign was underway. Seeing the studio saying a second simultaneous venture simply 9 months later is subsequently fairly a shock. Responding to the announcement, the studio writes, “As we talked about within the video we’re not abandoning Splitgate. We’ve at all times dreamed of being a multi-game studio and are very lucky to have the ability to work on multiple recreation.” If you wish to assist with the testing course of underneath NDA, you may signal as much as change into a playtester.
It is good to listen to Proulx and 1047 get out in entrance of this information, because it ought to at the very least reassure gamers’ minds that Splitgate will proceed to maintain going in the interim. I believe they’re going to be hoping this new motion shooter proves to be the silver bullet that has thus far eluded them, and I for one really feel the identical manner. Not solely would I be overjoyed to have some contemporary motion within the Titanfall mildew, however it’d additionally assist put my thoughts relaxed that Splitgate, which stays my favourite aggressive FPS in 2026, is not going to vanish any time quickly.
